A weakness of spatial data infrastructure (SDI) studies has been the limited uptake of research outside of positivist and scientific-technological perspectives. To put it simply, a study of a SDI without considering other ...

Classifications serve as shared systems to organize and handle knowledge in a given domain. They act as infrastructures that "[enforce] a certain understanding of context, place, and time". We therefore look at classifications ...

Risk aversion is a key element of utility maximizing hedge strategies; however, it has
typically been assigned an arbitrary value in the literature. This paper instead applies a
GARCH-in-Mean (GARCH-M) model to estimate ...

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) are the only truly liquid assets related to real estate investments. We study the behavior of U.S. REITs over the past three decades and document their return characteristics. REITs ...

This paper compares real and nominal foreign exchange
volatility effects on exports. Using a flexible lag version of the
Goldstein-Khan two-country imperfect substitutes model for
bilateral trade, we identify the overall ...

There has recently been considerable interest in the potential adverse effects associated with
excessive uncertainty in energy futures markets. Theoretical models of investment under uncertainty
predict that increased ...

This paper investigates the risk-return relationship in determination of housing asset
pricing. In so doing, the paper evaluates behavioral hypotheses advanced by Case and
Shiller (1988, 2002, 2009) in studies of boom ...

The European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is the key policy instrument of the European Commission's Climate Change Program aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions to eight percent below 1990 levels by 2012. A ...

This paper investigates the degree of both foreign exchange rate and interest rate
exposure of industry level portfolios in the G7. Our paper draws on the efficient market
hypothesis and examines the extent of unexpected ...